“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” ― Shel Silverstein

Me as a writer who puts queer characters all over everything I write, reading a book by an author who also has queer characters just existing throughout her work: *indescribable feeling of belonging to something*

Had a sore throat Monday and Tuesday, and really really tried to take it easy so it wouldn't get worse, but then I went to a relatively chill but still up-past-bedtime concert last night (tickets were gifts from months ago) and now my nose is stuffy and I'm just so tired.

Is frequently interrupting and continuing to talk when someone else hasn't finished their thought like a east coast regional thing? Because I am on my last nerve with one of my coworkers who is otherwise the sweetest person, and trying to give her the benefit of the doubt.

The cruelest dreams are the incredibly realistic ones where you sneak a pair of aging greyhounds into your apartment and convince your landlord to let you keep them and just cuddle them for days... And then wake up to find they don't exist.

It's taken 10 months, but I now have a more vibrant and interesting network of people than I ever had on Twitter. I'm regularly getting to see things I would not have seen over there.

Which is just confirmation that building a social group *anywhere* (online or offline) takes effort, patience, and often humility. We can't just move from one place to another and expect to keep what we had (again, applies online and offline).

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